He is projecting a 3/8" (.375 caliber) round steel projectile at ~3x the maximum velocity limit for an unrestricted air rifle in Canada.
Using a crank and some hefty rubber bands.
The UK has banned guns. People there generally don't build trebuchets to compensate.
Murder rate in the US is 18x higher than in the UK, and 23x higher than in Canada.
Edit: there are obviously other ways to murder someone, knives being the most common in the UK. If you're a good aim, guns are a lot less messy, and I think that makes a big difference to would-be murderers.
Literally the only people affected by "gun bans" are the law-abiding. Any criminal gets armed with cheap black-market weapons. All the political elites and aparatchiks have armed guards. The rest of us dumb slobs get to be mowed down in the cross-fire between roving gangs, or defencelessly abused and robbed in a home invasion.
Or clubbed as we protest in the streets, by our ever-caring politician's brown-shirts.
Remember: every smokeless powder propellant powered firearm is basically an "air gun". The rest is ... refinement.
Norway has pretty strict gun laws, requiring active shooting club membership and documented activity for being allowed to own non-hunting weapons and strict limits on number of firearms based on competition activity level.
Yet I read recently one can get a decent black market 9mm pistol for half what the cheaper models go for in the gun stores...
There's also been a record number of shootings here in the capital this year. Hope it's just a coincidence...
2/3rds of all firearm deaths in the US are from suicide. The majority of the rest are from drug/gang violence or domestic disputes.
Having free healthcare in the US (esp. mental healthcare) would drastically reduce the amount of firearm deaths via suicide.
Couple that with free after school jobs and skills training for those most at risk inner city youth who are the most likely to join a gang or sell drugs, would also have a large impact at reducing drug/gang firearm deaths.
Those two things alone would make the largest impact. Not reducing the amount of firearms.
Heck even raising the min wage to $15 would help so those kids parents dont have to work multiple jobs and can spend more time with and raising their children.
It's so annoying how people don't realize how manipulated the word "mass shooter" is.
I used to think this, but then I did some research, and it does not seem to be true:
https://www.gvpedia.org/gun-myths/gangs/
In Canada, the number is around 20%, per:
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=351000...
Neither most mass shootings, nor most gun murders, are committed by gang members. Although it is a non-trivial fraction.
And making something illegal is not the key factor in comparing countries: UK Drug Overdose Deaths 2020: 7.6/100k. US Drug Overdose Deaths 2020: 28.1/100k.
Europeans don't DIY guns because you're next to enough failed states to easily get fully automatic rifles. Why trouble your self with a building a semi-automatic when you can buy the full auto version? Except for Sweden and the UK. They prefer hand grenades and knives respectively.
This is not quite accurate. The [FGC-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGC-9) was made in Europe and has popped up in Myanmar. As I recall from the Popular Front documentary on JStark, the inventor of this weapon, other people were known by him to be making them in Western Europe.
The US also has a way larger population.
When you take away suicides (which make up 2/3rds of firearm deaths), we really dont have a lot of firearm deaths.
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